Dell'historia natvrale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano libri XXVIII : nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere e pietre : con alcune historie di piante & animali, sin'hora non date in luce

Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625 · 1599 · In Napoli, Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale, per Costantino Vitale · 60 pictures

Ferrante Imperato's 1599 Neapolitan natural history, printed in Naples by Costantino Vitale for scholars and collectors, catalogues minerals, stones, and some plants and animals from his cabinet of curiosities. Its woodcut pictures show fossil-like nodules, a lumpy stone mass, seed or shell-like forms, and a branching sprig rising from a base, drawn in fine parallel hatching that suggests how to render organic textures and rough mineral surfaces.

Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625 -- Natural history collections · Natural history -- Italy -- Pre-Linnean works · Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Early works to 1800 · Mineralogy -- Early works to 1800 · Cabinets of curiosities -- Early works to 1800 · Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Early works to 1800

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